Featured Articles
Social Media and Social Emotional Learning
When I lead professional development sessions for Love In A Big World , I always ask educators what is influencing the way our students see the world. Regardless of the grade level, the teacher...
Tamara Fyke
Five Ways Our Students Benefited from Online Learning
Our small Catholic high school was able to maintain good continuity of learning and connection with its domestic and international students during the global pandemic.
Jo Cipriano
Do Schools Actually Know Their Customers?
A recent report from LearnPlatform shows a 40 percent increase in average products accessed by US school districts over the past year; from 1,033 in 2020 to 1,449 in 2021. Clearly, schools are w...
James Stoffer
Effective Tutoring: Empowering Students Through Productive Struggle
To offset lost educational opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and educators are seeking new ways to expand access to learning and address students’ social-emotional and academic...
Dr. Lynn Kepp
The Science of Reading: 5 Steps to Literacy Success for All Students
I’m a native Costa Rican who moved to the United States as a foreign exchange student when I was 20. I know what it feels like to learn a second language—to be an English language learner (ELL),...
Dr. Ana Gabriela Bell Jimenez
Empower the Learner – Building the Skills of Agency and Self-Advocacy using the UDL Lens
A core objective of personalized, competency-based schools that is described in the Teaching and Design Principle “Activate Student Agency and Ownership,” is to cultivate agency, “the ability t...
Kathleen McClaskey
Why Some Reading Intervention Programs Don’t Help Striving Readers Learn Grammar
What we know about learning (what we’ve known at least since the National Research Council’s, How People Learn ) is that when information is contextualized, it is understood and remembered be...
Andrew Ordover
Districts Should Find New Ways to Assess Learning
At this point last year, we hoped we'd be on the other side of COVID-19. Instead, the combination of the Delta variant and back-to-school means educators and administrators are finding themselve...
Tracy Weeks
Cognitive Training: Questions Frequently Asked by Skeptics
There continues to be controversy regarding cognitive training (sometimes called brain training) programs, and there continue to be many skeptics. Skepticism is generally a healthy attitude, p...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Using Cultural Appreciation to Promote SEL in K-12
How we’re using our social-emotional learning curriculum to put relationships into focus, create strong bonds with students, and gauge what’s reall y going on in the classroom. With a stude...
Jonathan Powell
Digital Identity is the New Foundation of K-12 Learning Environments
With a global pandemic ongoing and “hybrid” learning normalized, K-12 superintendents are under pressure to invest in educational technology (EdTech). The Learning Counsel found that in 2020, sp...
Jim Harold
Passing Heroes and Thoughts for a New Generation
My heroes have always been cowboys And they still are, it seems Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams --Willie Nelson America lost a h...
Charles Sosnik
Good Day, Good Evening and Good Night
A lot is being written about our youngsters not getting enough sleep, particularly our high school students. In fact, many high schools have raised the time for their opening bells, hoping to gi...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
EdTech Execs Spot Successful Trends
As the educational sector moves into a new era of learning and collaboration, educators are facing new challenges every day. With this shift emerging, collaborative learning tools and innovative...
Rebecca Salem
Student Mental Health is a Puzzle: Here’s How to Make the Pieces Fit Together
Where does Social Emotional Learning (SEL) fit in? Through the framework of SEL, students can develop skills in self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal relationships to better prepar...
Kevin Dorsey & Zach Vander Veen
Planning for Your Future: Is It Worth Going for a MS Degree? How To Prepare in High School
Whichever stage you're at in your education, a master's degree in science may appeal to you. There are many benefits of studying for a MS (Masters of Science) degree in any subject. However, w...
Justine Melbury
The Energy of Unresolved Difference
I grew up in a family without conflict. Hahahahahaha. We were all expert at avoiding locking horns. We followed a simple formula: Emotions are dangerous, conflict stirs up emotions, ipso fact...
Mac Bogert
Creating an Inclusive Virtual Classroom for Distance Learning
A lot has changed over the past 2 years, where virtual and distance learning have become more broadly used and more widely accepted as common learning platforms. Although the information being t...
Emily Henry
Embracing an Opportunity to Reimagine Student Mental Health
It’s important to be clear that the mental health of children has been underserved for years—the pandemic did not change that. And, the broad picture of the necessary things that we should do to...
Stephanie Taylor
Include Relevant Goals to Ensure an Effective Plan for Remote Learning
One of the many challenges districts are facing as they go back to school this fall is the development of remote and distance learning plans that will allow them to define, measure, and demonstr...
Renae Abboud
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Hybrid Logistics Security
